Read Article Santos Panzo of Lewiston stands at his warehouse job at Core-Mark in Gardiner. Panzo, originally from Angola where he worked as a manager on a liquid natural gas project, said he initially felt “unhire-able” until Core-Mark gave him a chance. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal LEWISTON — Deko Diriye left a Kenyan refugee camp when she was three months pregnant. Her husband, who stayed behind, has yet to meet their now 5-year-old daughter. Last March, Diriye lost her low-pay, irregular-hours hotel housekeeping job at the start of the pandemic. Working through an employment agency, she’s landed a job earning $21 an hour at Abbott Labs — enough, she hopes, to bring her husband to the states so he can meet their child and, with his help at home, Diriye can someday go to school.